NELSON.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 532, 2 March 1889, Page 17

NELSON.

W.R., the 'cyclist, has returned from Wellington, where, according to his cwn account, he made more than one conquest. Too bad of the people to take you for a Salvationist in your clnb uniform though, W ..What caused E.O. to miss the steamer in Wellington ? They might have waited for you after that eloquent appeal you made ; it is to be hoped you were not mashing anyone in your guardian's absence. ..When, oh when, will W.L., of bonedust renown, leave off telling the people of Nelson he has been to Melbourne ? It is getting rather stale now... Once again I venture to write up a few items that have occurred in Sleepy Hollow, as it is called, and no doubt the benefactor is to be congratulated for seeing the occasion of giving Nelson such a grand title... We had a most revolting, excruciating, and heartrending scene here on Wednesday night, that would make your hair stand on end, as though it was nothing else than one of Dr. Scout's wire brushes, x refer to the dog-fight in Trafalgarstreet, in which B.R. and J.H.s mongrels fought with a vengeance. The fight was boss v. Larrikin, in which the former was victorious, the latter failing to keep up the reputation of his name. Whether any of them had any gulph taken out of them I am not in a position to say ; all I can say is that a young man in the crowd, seeing the occasion of a few boulder bank stones required, procured the above with the results known. Poor N.C. was almost throttled by the strong arm of the law on the occasion as being, so rumour goes, the setter on, although he was pretty crisp at the time. J.H. was heard to remark to the ' Lucres ' on, ' Go it, Larrikin.' Is it true that J.H. is going to show the white feather by keeping Larrikin at home? B.R. ought to follow the same example by keeping Boss at homo... Now we turn to the election. The cry is, everywhere you go, ' Who's going in ?' The O.M. should like to know who got the requisition bo numerously signed by voters and then W.L. not to come forward. Surely a Protectionist, a native, and a man who has travelled so little, also a teetotaller, is just a man for Kelson... More raw recruits, D.G. and J.R. having joined the navals. Last heard singing ' I'm a Soldier. '...H.G. having left Nelson, his name will no more figure in the 0. His last words were, ' If I could afford it I would take my (Hidd) sons and the lamb with me '...T.V. is ' going to.' Get the cans ready, boys. Don't forget the wood ...M.L. says since the house on the hill has been let, plenty of (wood) has been found.